U.S. patent number 9,799,204 [Application Number 14/450,452] was granted by the patent office on 2017-10-24 for infrastructure monitoring system and method and particularly as related to fire hydrants and water distribution. This patent grant is currently assigned to Mueller International, LLC. The grantee listed for this patent is Mueller International, LLC. Invention is credited to Clayton Robert Barker, Gregory E. Hyland, Robert Paul Keefe, Marietta Edmunds Zakas.
United States Patent | 9,799,204 |
Hyland , et al. | October 24, 2017 |
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for an infrastructure monitoring system. The infrastructure monitoring system may include an operations center; a monitoring device, the monitoring device may be coupled to a component of the infrastructure, include at least one sensor sensing at least one condition within the infrastructure, a data storage device storing data sensed by the at least one sensor, a transceiver device adapted to transmit and receive data, and a processor communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor, the data storage device, and the transceiver device, the processor may be configured to receive the data sensed by the at least one sensor, determine, based on the data sensed by the at least one sensor, if there is a problem with the at least one condition within the infrastructure that the at least one sensor sensed, upon determining that there is a problem with the at least one condition within the infrastructure that the at least one sensor sensed, transmitting a message to the operations center via the transceiver device, and periodically compiling sensing data stored in the data storage device and transmitting the compiled sensing data to the operations center via the transceiver device; and a control device, the control device may be communicatively coupled to at least one of the operations center and the monitoring device, and the control device may be configured to operate at least one output device when signaled by at least one of the operations center and the monitoring device, and the control device may be positioned within a fire hydrant.
Inventors: | Hyland; Gregory E. (Atlanta, GA), Keefe; Robert Paul (Alpharetta, GA), Zakas; Marietta Edmunds (Atlanta, GA), Barker; Clayton Robert (Atlanta, GA) | ||||||||||
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Assignee: | Mueller International, LLC
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Appl. No.: | 14/450,452 | ||||||||||
Filed: | August 4, 2014 |
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Current U.S. Class: | 1/1 |
Current CPC Class: | H04Q 9/00 (20130101); E03B 9/06 (20130101); G08B 25/006 (20130101); G08C 17/02 (20130101); G08B 25/10 (20130101); H04Q 2209/43 (20130101); G05B 2223/06 (20180801); G05B 2219/13 (20130101); Y10T 137/5468 (20150401); H04Q 2209/823 (20130101); H04Q 2209/47 (20130101); H04Q 2209/25 (20130101) |
Current International Class: | G08B 25/00 (20060101); H04Q 9/00 (20060101); G08C 17/02 (20060101); G08B 25/10 (20060101); E03B 9/06 (20060101) |
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